Welcome to Inside the League 2.0. Inside the League’s Neil Stratton has served as an advisor to schools from the Big Ten, ACC, WAC, Conference USA and Pac-10, as well as a perennial Division I-AA championship contender. -

About ITL

Who is Neil Stratton?

Neil Stratton stoked his love and
respect for the game in his teen years, playing high school football in West
Virginia, followed by a brief term as a walk-on outside linebacker at the U.S.
Naval Academy. During this time, Stratton earned the distinction of being
perhaps the worst player on the worst team in America during the late 80s.

Undaunted, Stratton helped start a
small draft-oriented publication, Lone
Star Football (LSF), in 1997. Stratton and his partner, Troy Brown, published
four editions annually around the time the Internet was taking hold and draft
information entered the fabric of American life. Though LSF lasted only until
2000, Stratton discovered that there was no information service solely for the
football professional. The news market for the person who had dedicated his
working life to the game as a contract negotiator, financial advisor, marketing
pro, coach, team executive, or other such profession was underserved.

To reach this market, Stratton
launched Inside the League (ITL) in
2002. In its original form, ITL published one report daily from Monday through
Friday, September through the end of the NFL draft in April. The site toddled
along, slowly growing in respect and impact, until 2007, when Stratton was
hired to run the 2008 Hula Bowl, which turned out to be the final performance
of a venerated game that once featured names like Marino, Montana and Dorsett.
In order to fully put his focus on his duties as Executive Director of the
game, Stratton shuttered the site in Fall 2007.

After returning home in January 2008,
Stratton learned that the Hula Bowl would not return. Eager to continue his
work in the game, Stratton launched a retooled ITL in Fall 2008. This time, the
service would publish several times weekly with a 12-month news cycle. Inside
the League clients responded, and slowly, the service grew.

Since then, ITL has added several other
popular features and services, which include:

·Seasonal newsletters aimed at
specific audiences within the game, from parents of draft prospects to newly
minted NFLPA contract advisor to financial planner and other groups.

·The free weekly ‘Friday Wrap’ email that has gained a
wide audience within the game and has become a favorite of NFL scouts, well-placed
media, parents of top prospects and others. Anyone
can register to receive this summary of the football news week.